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Researcher

Mare GERAERTS

  • Research Expertise  (University of Antwerp):• The diversity and prevalence of the Bartonella bacteria and the Monkeypox virus in different rodent and shrew species in the rainforest of Yangambi (DRC). • The Ebola virus at the interface between humans and animals in order to evaluate the risk of epidemic outbreaks in animals and humans. • The historical introduction and origin of invasive Nile tilapia and their monogenean parasites in sub-Saharan Africa • Hidden collections: uncovering the diversity and evolutionary history of viruses from archived specimens
  • Disciplines  (University of Antwerp):Animal genetics, Animal systematics and taxonomy, Biogeography and phylogeography, Molecular evolution, Phylogeny and comparative analysis, Population, ecological and evolutionary genetics, Infectious diseases, Parasitology, Virology
  • Disciplines  (Hasselt University):Animal morphology, anatomy and physiology, Animal systematics and taxonomy, Biogeography and phylogeography, Phylogeny and comparative analysis, Population, ecological and evolutionary genetics
  • Research techniques  (University of Antwerp):Animal biology, Animal systematics and taxonomy, Biogeography and phylogeography, Ecological and evolutionary genetics, Bioinformatics and computational biology, Evolutionary biology, Genetics, Animal genetics, Infectious diseases, Analysis of next-generation sequencing data, Computational evolutionary biology, Comparative genomics and population genomics, Virology
  • Users of research expertise  (University of Antwerp):Organisations or companies with activities in public health, nature conservation, epidemiology, parasitology